Radical Dreamers: Nusumenai Hōseki: Difference between revisions

|genre    = [[Adventure game|Adventure]]

|platforms = [[Satellaview]]

{{nihongo|'''Radical Dreamers: Nusumenai Hōseki'''|ラジカル・ドリーマーズ -盗めない宝石-|Rajikaru Dorīmāzu -Nusumenai Hōseki-|literally Radical Dreamers -The Jewel That Cannot Be Stolen-}} is a Japanese video game produced by [[Square Co.|Squaresoft]] in 1996 for the [[Satellaview]] add-on for the Nintendo [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]]. It is a text-based adventure game in which the player takes the role of [[Serge]], a young adventurer accompanied by [[Kid]], a teen-aged thief, and [[Gil]], a mysterious masked magician.

{{Main|Characters of Radical Dreamers}}

Radical Dreamers features three protagonists, Serge, Kid, and Gil, who seek out treasure as venturesome, reputable thieves. The young adult narrator, Serge, is a drifting musician who met Kid by chance three years ago in a remote town. Serge enjoys adventure with a carefree attitude. Kid, only sixteen years old, is a renowned professional thief with a reputation for boisterous behavior. Possessing a turbulent history, Kid dubiously fancies herself as a kind of Robin Hood. Gil is an enigmatic, handsome masked man skilled in magic who rarely speaks and can fade into shadow at will. Crowned by flowing, blue hair, Gil accompanied Kid well before Serge joined the group. They seek the [[Frozen Flame]], a mythic artifact capable of granting any wish. It is hidden in [[Viper Manor]], the home of a terrible and powerful aristocrat named [[Lynx]], who gained control of the estate after usurping power from and killing the [[Acacia Dragoons]], a familial unit of warriors.

Other scenarios are available after players complete the first. These include both humorous and serious variations of the main plot

Radical Dreamers preceded Chrono Cross, a full RPG sequel to Chrono Trigger. Masato Kato cited the desire to "redo Radical Dreamers properly" as the genesis of Cross, attributing the latter's serious atmosphere to the influence of Dreamers. Chrono Cross borrowed certain thematic elements, story points, characters, music, and objects introduced in Radical Dreamers, including the infiltration of Viper Manor, the Frozen Flame, the name Radical Dreamers for Kid's thievery, and the characters of Kid, Lynx, and Serge who became a non-speaking protagonist. Though these characters and items were not presented in the same context, their general traits survived the transition. Gil, confirmed by Kato to be Magus, was also going to be featured in Chrono Cross. This idea was scrapped due to difficulties in representing the story of Magus among the game's numerous other characters; the unrelated, enigmatic magician Guile was created instead. Since the release of Chrono Cross, Radical Dreamers is no longer part of the official continuity of the Chrono series. Chrono Cross addressed this through an easter egg hinting that Radical Dreamers took place in a different dimension. In the English version of Chrono Cross, this easter egg refers to Gil as "Magil". A new Chrono series game has not been made due to the difficulty of reuniting the Cross development team, which continues to update [[w:c:ffxi:Final Fantasy XI|Final Fantasy XI]]. Composer Yasunori Mitsuda stressed that "there are a lot of politics involved" in the creation of a new game, and that Masato Kato should participate in development.